NYC Magazine » london fashion week http://www.nycmagazine.com Covering all of New York City Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Death Of Alexander McQueen Overshadows Fashion Week http://www.nycmagazine.com/2010/02/17/death-of-alexander-mcqueen-overshadows-fashion-week/ http://www.nycmagazine.com/2010/02/17/death-of-alexander-mcqueen-overshadows-fashion-week/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:51:59 +0000 Yelena Mandenberg http://www.nycmagazine.com/?p=1351 Designer Alexander McQueen, RIP

The associate press reports:

LONDON – A bereaved Alexander McQueen left a note, then hanged himself in his apartment on the eve of his mother’s funeral, a coroner’s inquest said Wednesday, giving the cause of the fashion designer‘s death as asphyxiation and hanging.

The inquest has yet to formally deliver a ruling of suicide, but police said there were no suspicious circumstances.

Coroner’s official Lynda Martindill told the inquest at Westminster Coroner’s Court that the body of 40-year-old McQueen was found in an armoire at his London apartment on Thursday. In the dispassionate language of the inquest, she referred to him as “a single ...continue reading]]> http://www.nycmagazine.com/2010/02/17/death-of-alexander-mcqueen-overshadows-fashion-week/feed/ 0